Overview of load testing options

- [Instructor] Load testing is a particular type … of performance testing where you see … what kind of load your application can handle. … In the context of an API, this usually means … making many simultaneous connections … or sending many request in a very short period of time. … So load testing helps you understand how your application … will respond if there's increase in load. … SoapUI gives us ways to do this, … but before we look at what SoapUI does, … I want to look at some of the different types of load testing. … So the first type is what I'm going to call stress testing. … So this is just kind of giving your server … more calls than it's designed to handle … or finding out how much load your service … can take before it runs into trouble … and starts to have maybe network or memory … or whatever other kinds of issues it might get. … So we can call that stress testing. … Just kind of throw a whole bunch of simulated users … at your service and see what happens. … Another type of load testing is what …